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Home / Israel / Harris faces new battles with expanding Middle East conflict
Israel, Israel‑Hamas, Middle East

October 11, 2024

Harris faces new battles with expanding Middle East conflict

By Gil Barndollar

Gil Barndollar, a nonresident senior fellow at Defense Priorities, said Harris would benefit from putting daylight between her position and Biden by drawing a harder line on Israel, though he added it “takes political guts.”

“Fundamentally, it’s a lack of courage or creativity,” he said. “Her incoherence and inability to answer these questions really reflects the state of someone who is speaking for a fractious Democratic Party on this [issue] and is trying to appease everybody and satisfy no one.”

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